One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

Former House Speaker Joe Straus left the Texas Capitol almost seven years ago and hasn’t run for office since, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at his campaign finance reports. The political ...

Devices that conceal unwanted noises are the next frontier in advanced toilet technology. Would you like some peaceful birdsong, or perhaps a burst of artillery fire? Donna Burke, who moved to Japan ...

Abstract: Clock duty cycle is important in high-speed interface designs, as it directly impacts the transmitted data eye width, thereby increasing the deterministic jitter (DJ) of overall high-speed ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The majority of plants have leaves, petals and seed structures in spirals that follow the Fibonacci sequence, meaning each sequence is the sum of the ...

Ruixue Jia is a professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at University of California San Diego. She serves as co-editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics, co-director ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens access to non-coding regions, where most disease-associated genetic variants ...